Marc Bischoff was born (1969) in Berlin, Germany and grew up in Bochum, West- Germany.
He studied music and acting at the "Hochschule für Musik Detmold" and the Studio TIP Berlin (former masterclass of the Academia of Fine Arts, GDR) before he started his career as an actor on stage in theaters of Celle, Zittau, Dresden, Köln and Berlin in 1993.
In 2000 Marc decided to concentrate on his work in movies but is still acting on stage from time to time. For example in the 2008 production of the "Berliner Festspiele" "Homage a Klaus Nomi" as Klaus Nomi (director Ulrike Ottinger).

Since 1994 he has played in more than 50 cinema and tv productions as "Run Lola Run" (Tom Tykwer), Good Bye Lenin (Wolfgang Becker), "Enemy at the Gates" (Jean Jaque Annaud), "(T)raumschiff Surprise" (Michael Bully Herbig), "Alles auf Zucker" (Dany Levy), "The Pianotuner of Earthquake" (Quay Brothers), "Taxidermia" (György Palfi) and "Pope Joan" (Sönke Wortmann).

For his work as an actor he received international awards like the "Actors Prize of the Hungarian Filmcritics 2007", the "Don Quijote Award 2006", the Silver Hugo Award", Chicago 2006 and a "Oscar Nomination" in 2007 for "Taxidermia".

Beside his filmwork he has strong interest in radio drama and music (he plays Guitar and Cello very well).

He lives in Berlin, Germany and in the south of Norway at times. Beside German he speaks Norwegian and English.

Marc Bischoff is represented by the Vienna/ Berlin agent Cornelia Albrecht- Kubelka from the Conactor agency.